 Photo above: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN stars as big, brash American DJ The Count in "The Boat That Rocked", the new comedy from writer/director Richard Curtis that is inspired by the British pirate radio revolution of the '60s. Photo Credit: Rankin. Copyright: © 2009 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Release date: August 28, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge and Kenneth Branagh
Written and Directed by: Richard Curtis
Produced by: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Hilary Bevan Jones
Executive Producers: Richard Curtis, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin
In the late 1960s, American radio stations blasted rock and roll 24 hours a day. But in the home country of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the only way 25 million people could hear their music was to tune in...to a boat.
Celebrated filmmaker Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually) brings the incredible story of a band of rogue deejays who captivated British radio listeners in the '60s, playing the music that defined a generation and boldly defying the government that tried to shut them down--The Boat That Rocked.
Leading the cast of the comedy are Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Radio Rock's infamous deejay The Count; Bill Nighy as the station's owner (and ship's captain), Quentin; Rhys Ifans as mystic deejay royalty Gavin; Nick Frost as the amorous, sarcastic disc jockey Dave; and Kenneth Branagh as the man out to silence Radio Rock, Minister Dormandy. Universal Pictures.
|
(L to R) TOM BROOKE, IKE HAMILTON, WILL ADAMSDALE, RALPH BROWN, KATHERINE PARKINSON, RHYS DARBY, PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, TOM STURRIDGE, BILL NIGHY, RHYS IFANS, NICK FROST, TOM WISDOM, TALULAH RILEY and CHRIS O'DOWD in "The Boat That Rocked", the new comedy from writer/director Richard Curtis that is inspired by the British pirate radio revolution of the '60s. Photo Credit: Rankin. Copyright: © 2009 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
|
